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Pirate Bay Founder Released From Solitary Confinement

Posted by samzenpus on from the out-of-the-cage dept.

TrueSatan writes "Pirate bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm is set to be released from solitary confinement but is still to serve the remainder of a one-year sentence relating to Pirate Bay activities. Five months remain of that sentence and they are to be served in a normal prison with far fewer restrictions on his confinement — assuming no new charges are brought against him. He had been accused of involvement in the hacking of Swedish IT firm Logica, but no charges have been substantiated in that case. He was later implicated in a second case but, once more, no charges have been substantiated against him."

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  1. Re:Recursive link? by auntieNeo · · Score: 1, Troll

    Recursive link?

    It's what Slashdot is using now to drum up ad revenue. It's like printing money!

  2. Re:He was never IN solitary confinement by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: -1, Troll

    Interesting
    When Brad Manning is held in a US prison cell by himself for 23 hours a day, it is "OMG! TORTURE!!" This guy, held in a Swedish prison cell by himself for 23 hours a day..."meh".

  3. Re:Assange was right after all by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Bar floozies"? How in the name of all that is holy did these misogynist shaming words get moderated up to +5? They were not "bar floozies", they were respected Swedish feminists.

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